Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on Steam
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Imagine being this salty about steam cards and C's skins
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Yes, I'm so angry and salty that I checks notes wrote a detauled and even-handed analysis of the situation with appropriate caveats. How dare I state facts with sources and explanations of my reasoning.
I'm just absolutely raging. It's embarrassing, frankly. I'm making a fool of myself. I can't believe I lost control like that and said words that I believe to be true. Who does that? Unhinged behaviour. Just wild. I should be banned.
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Low bars for entry with high community trustworthiness, you can make a .ca account really easily and most lemmy users have a positive opinion of .ca and its users.
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Im honestly a really big fan of copyleft. I think that it seems more "fair" in a system that requires sacrifice to make progress.
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Lemmy trolling sucks.
Actually no trolling in general sucks.
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Are you just unaware of Unreal Engine/Tournament (now Fortnite)?
They are the single biggest contributor to game development
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I miss The Specialists and Vampire Slayer mods so so much...
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Science and industry.
There are some discords where people play HL1 mods once a week.
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Not anymore!
Oh I gotta fire up TF2! These sorts of shenanigans are the main reason I drifted away years ago.
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Eh, maybe I'm being pedantic, but I still don't really see how the addition of the steam marketplace is an example of the steam platform declining in quality. It was a feature that they added a long time ago, and it doesn't interfere with or worsen the experience of buying, organizing, or playing my video games. Sure it's a needless addition (in our opinions), but one that I can easily ignore because it's so isolated from the main product. Plenty of other products and services out there have features that some don't like or don't use, but that isn't the same thing as enshittification. And I feel like the spam would happen regardless of if the marketplace was there or not. That feels more like a moderation problem, not an enshittification problem.
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Yeah it was rough for a year or two there... but Valve did a massive banwave and now I've only seen a group of bots join my server twice in the last year, and we could kick them easily
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Sure, if you ignore the worst parts of it that I explicitly laid out and only focus on how it makes you feel personally, then I can see how you might feel that way.
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I'm not ignoring anything, I just don't agree that the steam marketplace, and all the stuff you're talking about related to the steam marketplace, fits either of our definitions of enshittification.
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Okay, I don't understand how and you haven't explained it, you've just said that you don't personally care about it, which isn't an argument I can respond to. You're free to have your opinion, but I don't see how it's relevant here.
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Isn't this how they all are? L4d and l4d2 are the same unless you're hosting a server with .smx plugins.
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It was a feature that they added a long time ago, and it doesn't interfere with or worsen the experience of buying, organizing, or playing my video games... Plenty of other products and services out there have features that some don't like or don't use, but that isn't the same thing as enshittification.
I have explained it though
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Yes, you ignored the worst parts of it in favour of things you could dismiss for yourself, and then you ignored me pointing that out. I'm not going to keep explaining this to you any further.
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Specialists mentioned
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The only one ignoring things is you. You're ignoring my whole point. Which is that your personal bar for enshittification is lower than any of the definitions we've given in this thread, because it's basically "anything I think is bad is enshittification"
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Natural Selection was a quality one.
